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Month: August 2020

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Piece 13: When They See Us

Posted on August 25, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

I don’t know that I’ve ever before seen such a poignant examination of just how short-lived black childhood truly is in this country. Even today, well into their adult lives, there are people who stubbornly refuse to believe that the now-exonerated individuals who were jailed as a result of this case, had nothing to do with the crime that took place that night in 1989.

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City Council Special Session

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by Querida

When I came home from work today, I quickly prepared the remarks below to share at a special (virtual) meeting of the City Council this evening. I share my words here so that should I be quoted or referenced, the entirety of my message will be here, published on my own platform, in its entirety….

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Piece 12: About This Right to Vote

Posted on August 18, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

As for me and my house, I am the only person who can vote. I have young children and an immigrant husband. My vote represents us all. Your vote represents more people than just you as well

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An Open Letter to First-Year Teachers

Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 by Querida

It isn’t always like this.

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Who are we?

Posted on August 12, 2020 by Querida

Who were we in the past? Who are we now? Who do we want to be in the future? Longview native Matthew McConaughey recently stated that based on where we live and where we grow up, we may have “allergies” to certain aspects of our nation’s history. In other words, we may be unaware of…

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Piece 11: Kalief Browder

Posted on August 11, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

Browder didn’t take his own life any more than his mother died as a result of heart trouble; rather, our country’s inefficient judicial system killed this young man and by extension his mother as well.

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Piece 10: 12 Years a Slave

Posted on August 4, 2020November 1, 2021 by Querida

To study these two stories and the popular response to both is, I believe, to see with fresh eyes the expectation of the dominant culture in America that it is always the expected position of black bodies to be submissive to their pain and struggles while observers who are not themselves on the margins with black Americans cry for a moment and then move on with their lives: never changing, never changed.

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